Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
William Morris

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Little Quilts In My Mailbox

I belong to the Carol Doak list on Yahoo and we are in the midst of a postcard swap. I love doing foundation piecing and have used Carol's method for a long time. Our only requirement was to use one of Carol's designs. Carol is a great teacher and if you have the chance to take a workshop from her, do it. You will have a great time and learn a valuable quilt technique. I have always wanted to do one of these swaps.

I used Timtex to give the cards body and stitched a heavy satin stitch around the outside edge to finish it. We were divided into groups of 4 and we each made 3 postcards and mail them out to the other 3 in our group. Here are the 3 cards that I mailed out.

﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿A little ray of sunshine.﻿﻿

Just had to make one with a patriotic theme and then added a little machine embroidery bling!

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A little Iowa scene.....represents what is outside my window.

And of course you want the back to look as good as the front and I wanted a vintage feel to my card. I used a Tim Holtz stamp set for the "postcard" and star design. The lines were from a journaling stamp from Close To My Heart.

I got my first "little quilt" in my mailbox yesterday.....how fun...... a sweet little butterfly. Who wouldn't want one of these pieces of pure joy when you pop open that mailbox? I wonder when the next one will come and what will it be....... ﻿

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About Me

I am a country girl, living a simple & ordinary life. I would like to share my creative expressions and lifestyle with kindred spirits. I love all things vintage.... fabric, needlework, fibers, scrapbooking & memory keeping, and genealogy too. I am married to my best friend, the "silver fox" and have been blessed to raise 4 daughters who have given me 15 grands.....my treasures!!!